Apparatus for unloading and distributing rails



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APPARATUS FOR UNLOADING AND DISTRIBUTING RAILS.

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APPARATUS FOR U'NLOADING AND DISTRIBUTING RAILS. No. 508,868. Patented Nov. 14, 1893;

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UNITE 1 STATES HENRY W. BYERS, OF NEW OASTLE, LAXVRENOE' COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

PATENT OFFICE.

APPARATUS FOR UNLOADING AND DISTRIBUTING RAILS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,868, dated November 14, 1893.

' Application filed June 16,1893. Serial No- 4v7.s16. (No model To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. BYERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Castle, in the county of Lawrence and State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Unloadingand Distributing Rails, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in devices for unloading and distributing rails.

The object of the present invention is to providea device adapted to be readily applied to arailway car, and capable of enabling rails to be readily unloaded and distributed along the track, while the car is in motion.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawingsFigure 1 is a side elevation of a car provided with a device constructed in accordance with this invention for unloading and distributing rails. Figs. 2, 3 and 4 are detail views of the hangers. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the intermediate hanger. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the brace of one of the hangers.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1, 2 and 3 designate upper, intermediate and lower hangers, detach ably secured to one side of a car 4 and forming an inclined sup port for a rail, and adapted to permit the latter to be discharged from the car, while the same is in motion for distributing rails along the track for replacing those in use, and to avoid the necessity of trucking and distributing rails in that manner. The intermediate and lower hangers 2 and 3 are provided with horizontally disposed rollers 5 and 6 to enable a rail to be readily discharged from the car; and the hangerlwhich has no roller is adapted to form a support for one end of a rail to cause the weight of the latter to exert sufficient friction to prevent the same from sliding accidentally down the inclined support aiforded by the brackets. The upper hanger is constructed of a single piece of metal, and consists of a horizontal supporting bar 7 provided at its outer end with an upturned flange 8, and depending rigid jaws 9 formingaclamp for engaging the upper edge of oneside of the car, whereby the hanger is detachablyse cured thereto. The upper surface of the supporting bar 7 of the upper hanger 1 is flat, and is of sufficient area to support a rail and prevent the same from slipping accidentally. The intermediate and lower hangers 2 and 3 are provided with outer rectangular portions, 10 and 11, to receive the rollers 5 and 6, which are journaled on pins 12 and 13 provided at their inner ends with heads, and having at their outer ends detachable keys 5 and 6 to enable the rollers and pins to be readily.

removed when desired. At the inner side of each rectangular portion of the interme- .vided with outwardly extending ends 15 adapted to bear against the sides of the car. The offset angularly bent central portion is riveted or otherwise secured to the frame of the hanger, and the brace is provided with V divergent portions 16 at each side of the attached portion. The intermediate hanger is provided with a horizontal shank 17 and has a depending flange or lip 18 to engage the car at the inner side thereof; and the lower hangeris provided with an elongated inclined shank 19, which has at its upper end an L- shaped hook 20 to engage the car.

The rails are adapted to be distributed along the track for replacing worn ones, and are discharged from the car while the latter is in motion, and are supported by the hangers previous to and while being discharged. A rail is first supported by the top and intermediate hangers, until it is desired to discharge the rail, when it is tilted and moved longitudinally sufficiently to be supported by the rollers of the intermediate and lower hangers when it will discharge itself as a car moves along.

It will be seen that the apparatus for unloading and distributing rails is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readily applied to an ordinary car, and that it is capable of discharging the rails while the car is in motion to distribute them along the track. It will also be apparent that the device obviates the necessity of trucking rails and distributing them along; the*t'rack's by means'o'f hand-cars or trucks, and that it prevents injury to rails during unloading, as rails when unloaded in a heap are liable to be bent, mashed and otherwiseinj ured from coming incontact with one another.

Changes in the form, proportion and the minordetails of construction'may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this inventionap v I The intermediate and lower hangers are provided at the tops of their outer sides with upwardly and outwardly inclined flanges 22 for retaining therails iii-the support or chute.

What-I claim is-w 1r Means for unloading and" distributing railsc'ornpri'singa series-of hangers of d ifterent-1engrns=adapt'edto be secured to a canto form an inclined support, and rollers mounted up'o'n' all the: hangers exeept thehighest' one an d arranged at difier'ent'elevationsgsubstantially asd'esc'ribed.

2. Means-tor unloadingand distributing rails comprising hangers 2 and-'- 3-of ditterent lengthsprovided with rollersarranged at dif ferent e'lev'arionaand an upper hangerhaw ing 'an outwardly extending sup ertingbar adapted to hold and arrest arail, substantially'as' described- 3-; Means for unloading? and distributing i rails" comprising hangers 2 and 3 of different lengths rovided w-i'th rollers arranged a't diffemur-elevations; and an upper hanger 1 consisting of a horizontally disp'o'sed outwardly extend ingsuppo'rting barhaving'an upturned flange at its outer end and depen'd ingflan'ges or jaws arranged at the inner end. of the supporting. bar-for engaging, the: sidesofa car, substantially as described.

4. Means for unloading and distributing rails comprising an upper hanger, and hangers 2 and 3 of different lengths provided with shanks having rectangular books at their tops for engaging a car and provided at their lower endswith rectangular'bendsanranged atdiffereut elevations and provided'at their outer sides with upturned outwardly extending 5 flanges,v rollers arranged in the rectangular bends and located at different elevations, and braces having ofiset central portions secured 'to the hangers 2 and 3 and having straight ends adapted t'o-bear against a ca-r, substantially as deseribed,

5. Means forfu'nloadingand distributing rails comprising an: upper hanger consisting ot a liori'zontal supporting"b'arhaving; an; upturned flangeat its'outerend and provided at its inner end with depending jaw-sg-an intermediate hanger having a horizontal shank provided with a depending flan'ge a lower hanger having an" inclined shank provided at the upper'e'nd-witlran- L-sliaped-hook, rollers journaled in the intermediateand lower hangers,- and horizontallydisposed bracing plLat-essecured to l3l16 lllli6lll16d-lal16 lowerhangers and all of saidihangersadapted' to 'be'ar against: a car, substantially as described In testimony that I claim the foregoing as f m yown I have hereto a-fiixed' my signat ure-in the preseneeot two witnesses HENRY W. BYERIS. Witnesses:

F. B. KING, 0. RUMsEY. 

